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"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face."
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"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."

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"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face."
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